Progressive Era

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• I. Origins
• A. Earlier Ideas
• 1. Mugwumps
• 2. Populism
• 3. Socialists
• B. Beliefs
• 1. Goals
• a. End Abuses of Power (Reform/Regulate business
  Reform Govt.)
• b. Believe in Progress Apply principles of
  science efficiency to econ., social, polt.
  Institutions
• c. Believe Govt. had power to combat special
  interests work for good of local, state, and
  national interests Public Service
• 2. Use Politics to Accomplish Goals
• 3. New Society needed Govt. Response Services

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• II. Reformers
• A. Muckrakers
• 1. Henry Demarest Lloyd Wealth against
  Commonwealth

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• II. Reformers
• A. Muckrakers
• 2. Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives

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• II. Reformers
• A. Muckrakers
• 3. McClures Magazine
• 4. Lincoln Steffens Shame of the Cities
• 5. Ida Tarbell History of Standard Oil

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• II. Reformers
• A. Muckrakers
• 6. Upton Sinclair The Jungle
• 7. Expose Corruption Gain Popular Support
  Faith in Democratic Cure

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• II. Reformers
• B. Social Gospel Movement
• 1. Social responsibility salvation
• 2. Believe church humanitarianism could
  transform society/cities
• 3. Walter Rauschenbusch
• 4. Salvation Army

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• II. Reformers
• C. Political Reformers
• 1. Mayor Tom Johnson, Governors Charles Evans
  Hughes Hiram Johnson
• 2. Governor Senator of Wisconsin Robert La
  Follette
• a. Wisconsin Idea Direct Primary, tax
  reform, and regulation of RR rates
• b. Senator stood against old guard
  Republican Senators
• c. Work for regulating public utilities
  implementing state civil service getting rid of
  spoils system

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• II. Reformers
• D. Women
• 1. Womens Associations/Club
• 2. Settlement House Movement
• 3. Suffrage
• 4. Temperance
• 5. Labor

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• III. Themes/Reforms of Progressivism
• A. Efficiency
• 1. Frederick Taylor Taylorism/Scientific
  Management
• 2. Politics
• a. quest for order to streamline political
  institutions
• b. political parties corrupt inefficient
• c. concentrate on political reform
• B. Democracy/Politics
• 1. Local
• a. City Commission (Galveston, Texas 1900)
• b. City Manager
• 2. State
• a. Initiative, Referendum, Recall
• b. Direct Primary
• 3. National
• a. 16th Amendment Income Tax
• b. 17th Amendment Direct Election of Senators
• c. Secret Ballot
• C. Economics Regulation

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• III. Themes/Reforms of Progressivism
• D. Social Justice
• 1. Settlement House Movement late 19th Cent.
• 2. Labor Legislation
• Children
• Keating Owen Act Forbade shipment in
  interstate commerce by co. employing children
  under 14 (16 in mines), but is overturned in 1918
• Women
• Muller v. Oregon
• Workers Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Fire

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• III. Themes/Reforms of Progressivism
• D. Social Justice
• 3. Prohibition
• Womens Christian Temperance Union/Frances
  Willard Anti-Saloon League
• 18th Amendment (1919)

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• III. Themes/Reforms of Progressivism
• D. Social Justice
• 4. Suffrage
• Carrie Chapman Catt National American Woman
  Suffrage Association
• Alice Paul National Womans Party
• 19th Amendment (1920)

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• III. Themes/Reforms of Progressivism
• D. Social Justice
• 5. African Americans
• Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois
• Niagara Movement
• NAACP